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CORRESPONDENCE AND MISCELLANY. 



EXPERIMENTS 



SENT BY THE DORCHESTER FARMERS' CI.CB. 



Having stated in April last, that I had on hand an expcrimen- 



il investigation of the efficacy of the several new philosophic nos- 



runis, recently offered to the agricultural community, it may be 



ixpected that I should otTer, at least a partial report of their pro- 



'- jressive indications, so far as the advance of the season may 



I regret to say, they have, in no respect, exceeded the moderate 

 iews I had entertained of them, and freely expressed on the occa- 

 on alluded to ; yet T would feel wholly unauthorized, to pass a 

 Dnclusive judgment upon them, until final results, obtained by 

 . yself, and others, may have fully developed the degree of charac- 

 ^r to which they may be entitled. 



The guano, and the Haulerive solution, are alleged to be pro- 



■ '.dive against Insects, as well as nutrifive— and to promote the 

 '- rowth of vegetables, in an extraordinary degree. 



■ To these two points, I will concisely call your attention, as far 



* I observation has enabled rae. 



I have this season used the guano steep with a portion of my 



* ed corn ; and agreeably to the rules prescribed by the venders 

 ' ' the article ; that is, about 80 hours, in the solution, which was 



•epared as directed by the same authorities. In the Hauterive 

 Mution, the grain was steeped as directed from 18 to 24 hours. 



The fiehl in which the experiments were made, contains about 

 •'ty acres, and was placed under a winter furrow~as usual in ray 

 'Itivation— and manured, broadcast, in the spring— excepting 

 'jdy about two acres left for a fuller experiment. 



I Several acres, embracing th? manured and unmanured, were 

 janted with each of the steeped grains, as well as the unsteeped. 



